Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu> writes: > > * A Debian server, with a large hard disk, with a fairly full install of > > Debian. > > * Multiple Debian client machines, with small hard disks (often 100 meg or > > less). I'd like to mount, at minimum, /usr from the Debian server. > > /usr should be mounted over NFS in read-only mode. > > I'm working on a similar set up. this is the first machine, and is > supposed to become the server--though i'd like to keep it and make > another one the server. the "perfect" solution is the nfsroot package. You can boot *everything* from the server. Per client you need only some configuration files on the server. You may also want to have a look at http://cuiwww.unige.ch/~mvuilleu/configsc1/config.html Linux Remote-Boot mini-HOWTO: Configuring Remote-Boot Workstations with Red-Hat Linux, DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany eMail: leutloff@sundancer.oche.de http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian/GNU Linux! Mehr unter http://www.debian.org/
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